Woodcutting

Trees and wood

10 trees · 15 core wood from a pine

Core wood comes from pine trees in the Black Forest: a felled pine splits into two half logs that drop about 15 core wood and as much plain wood between them, and any axe will do. Finewood needs a bronze axe, because birch and oak ignore anything weaker; ancient bark comes from swamp trees, also bronze; Yggdrasil wood needs black metal. A tree too tough for your axe takes no damage at all, so if chopping does nothing, that is the reason.

Every tree10

Tree	Axe needed	Health	Trunk yields, on average	When it falls
BeechMeadows	Stone Axetier 0	80	Wood 20	Beech Seeds
OakMeadows	Bronze Axetier 2	200	Finewood 25Wood 25	Acorns, Resin
BirchMeadows, Plains	Bronze Axetier 2	80	Finewood 10Wood 10	Birch Seeds
FirBlack Forest, Mountain	Stone Axetier 0	80	Wood 20	Fir Cone
PineBlack Forest, Mistlands	Stone Axetier 0	120	Corewood 15Wood 15	nothing extra
Ancient treeSwamp	Bronze Axetier 2	80	Ancient Bark 5Wood 5	nothing extra
Yggdrasil shootMistlands	Black Metal Axetier 4	100	Wood 10Yggdrasil Wood 10	Feathers, Resin
Ashwood treeAshlands	Stone Axetier 0	200	Ashwood 13Wood 7	Ashwood
Timber tree (fir)Deep North	Stone Axetier 0	200	Timberwood Cone 8Wood 8Timberwood 4	Fir Cone
Timber tree (pine)Deep North	Stone Axetier 0	120	Wood 20Timberwood 10	nothing extra

Trunk yields are averages for one tree on the default resource rate: each half log rolls its table a fixed number of times, so the split between wood types varies from tree to tree but the total does not. A higher resource rate in the world settings multiplies all of it.

Felling faster

A falling trunk damages whatever it lands on, including other trees, so felling into a stand clears several at once. The trunk and its half logs take chop damage like the tree did, and the halves are where nearly all the wood is, so a trunk is never worth leaving. Tool tier only gates whether a hit counts; above that, damage per swing comes from the axe's chop value and the Woodcutting skill.